Have you ever thought that if one of the people working

with you in your office is not like you or there is someone in

the hundreds of students studying in college with you who is

not like you?

Dark mysteries, dark worlds and strange creatures;

Everything is possible in this universe Some beings who live peacefully and some who want to

establish their dominion over human, want to occupy the

whole world. The thing to think about is what happens if

there is such a situation that such a creature becomes weak in

front of human or a situation where human become their

strength. But in both the circumstances,the human being will

suffer but what if human becomes the cause of the suffering

of such creatures. It is possible that anything can happen at

any time in the life of any human being. Nobody knows what

we are going to see or what is going to happen in the coming

moment. Everyone is busy in the run-up to their life, some are

happy, some are unhappy, some are satisfied and some are

dissatisfied, everyone is busy with themselves. And

completely unaware of what is happening around or what is

going to happen.

Like everyone, Harriet was also living her life unaware of her

upcoming life. Everything in her life was normal until he

came into her life. Harriet was living her ordinary life with

her mother. She was a college-going girl who was around

twenty years old, about 5 feet 3 inches tall, fair and skinny.

Her mother and her friends were very important in her life,

she was simple and kind and living her happy life without any

fear. She was happy in her life but one day an incident

happened in her life that took her happiness away.

She got a call and someone told her that his father's car had an

accident and his condition was bad.

When she reached the hospital with her mother, doctors

informed them, her father had died. She was sad and her

mother’s condition was also bad so she decided to leave the

city and memories behind.

She shifted to Millerville city with her mother. Two months

passed, she tried to be happy and cheerful Elli became her new friend.

Elli was also caring and cheerful girl. Elli kept trying to make her

laugh and would often come to her house too. They became very good friends to share their secrets with each other.

Harriet's mother did not get well, but she was happy to see her

daughter happy.

Gradually time passed and Harriet's life was back on track.

She got admission to Wellspring college, the most famous

college in the city, and her mother got a job. Once again she was happy in her life but she also had feared. She found happiness in that new city.

But soon her happiness was going to be in the dark. Will she

be able to regain her happiness?

Harriet was standing in a beautiful valley, she was happy to

see the view of the beautiful mountains and the waterfall

flowing in front of her, birds chirping and a rainbow that was

visible even without rain. The view was so beautiful that she

got lost in the beauty of the view. Suddenly she realized that

the weather had started changing, the cold air started blowing

and her body started chilling in the cold.

And for a few moments, there were dark clouds in the sky,

lightning strikes that made Harriet scared and with the

thunder of lightning, she felt a twinge on her neck. She held

the neck with her hand as she felt pain. She stood there and

looked around to see what was happening but she could not

understand anything when she heard a deep voice, “Casiophia

come to me”. She could not understand what was happening,

she started thinking in her mind, who is calling and whom? so

she shouted and asked, "Who is there?" but she didn’t get any

answer.

She was so scared, she had tears in her eyes and she

was trying to run away but as if her legs were frozen she

could not even move from her place when she realized that

there was something near her feet and looked down.A person was lying, his face could not be seen.

She sat down

and touched him to see his face but she felt something in her

hand and when she saw that it was blood, she was scared to

see the blood, then the person muttered, “I am sorry

Casiophia, please forgive me.”

Harriet could not understand anything, so she again tried to

see the person's face, but before she could understand

anything, she got a bit shocked and she fell into the icy

trench.

After a while she found herself in bed in her room, soaked

with sweat and tears in her eyes. Then the sound of the alarm

clock caught her attention and she remembered that she had

slept.

For a while, she lay on her bed thinking about her dream, why

she often saw this dream and murmured in herself,

“Who was the one who was apologizing and to whom? And

who is Casiophia?”

Harriet was in her thoughts when a voice

called out to her, "Harriet hurry or else you will be late for

college again. "Hearing her voice, she remembered that she

had to go to college too, so she got up and went to prepare for

college. A woman in the kitchen was cooking food, she was

her mother.

“Good morning mom” Harriet said while hugging her mother.

“Good morning my dear, Have breakfast,” her mother said

while giving her breakfast.

She said goodbye to her mother and left for college.

On the way to the daily place, she found her friend Elli and

the two friends kept talking and reached college.

Wellspring College was a very famous college in MillerVille

City. She was one of those special children who had the

distinction of studying in the Wellspring College because her

mother wanted to give her a good education after her father

passed away.

Nothing special happened in the college, like every day,

Professors taught. A new boy in Harriet's class who was

transferred to her college a month ago tried to talk to her.

"Hello, Harriet," Azazel greeted.

"Hello" she replied with an irritated look.

"Would you like to grab a coffee today, please do not refuse

because you have rejected my offer about ten times in the last

month, please say yes today"

"Oh Please Please Not Again"

“Please once just once " he pleads“Ok but only today”

“Thank you,” he said and in excitement, he hugged her.

In the break, she told about Azazel to Elli. She was very

excited and was listening to the whole thing. She said, “I

think he likes you.”

Harriet was shocked and said hesitantly, “there is nothing like

that.” After college, both left for home.

It was around 7:30 in the evening. Harriet was ready to go

with Azazel, she was looking gorgeous in her light blue dress.

She was getting a little nervous from inside as she was going

with a boy for the first time. That's when her phone rang,

“Hello, Harriet, I'm coming to pick you up, are you ready?”

“Yes.” she hung up.

After some time both of them reached a restaurant. Harriet

looked around and guessed that it was an expensive

restaurant.

Both were sitting silent when Azazel broke the silence while

asking something,

“What about your family?”

“My mother and I,” she replied.

With this, the two started talking and became so engrossed in

talking that they forgot the time.At around ten o'clock, the ring of Azazel's phone caught the

attention of both of them.

“Hello! ok, I’m coming,” he said and ended the call.

“What happened?” She asked, getting worried.

“Nothing serious but I have to go, I hope you don’t mind, I'm

leaving you here alone”

“No no it’s fine I’ll manage” she assured him and he went.

It was dark, she was going back home when she heard some

voices coming from a dark alley, she was so anxious that she

could not stop herself and started walking in the direction of

the voice, but she stopped at some distance and saw a person

was kneeling on the ground and one was standing but she

could not see their faces. But one thing that caught her

attention was the person who was standing with his shirt’s

sleeve bent up to the elbow and there was a strange mark on

his left arm. The person who was sitting was crying with

folded hands. Harriet was horrified to see this and pressed her

mouth with both her hands and quietly left for her house from

there.

The next day in college, when she was talking with Elli, she

asked her, “And how was the date with Azazel?”“The first thing is that it was not a date and secondly it was

nothing special, just drank coffee and talked for a while and

suddenly he got a call from someone and he left in a hurry.

But,” Harriet kept quiet for a while

“But what ?” “nothing,”

“Oho! Just tell me, I know you want to tell me something, so

why are you silent? Tell me.”

And then Harriet told Elli whatever she saw on the way.

Azazel came there when both were talking.

“Hello girls” he shook hands.

“Hey Azazel, how are you?” Elli asked him.

“I'm fine, you tell me, what else were you talking about?”

Harriet did not say anything and remained silent.

“Nothing but yours and...” Elli was about to say but Harriet

covered her mouth with her hand, “Nothing…. Nothing…”

Harriet said awkwardly.

In a few days, Azazel had a good friendship with Harriet and

Elli, and they got quite mingled. Sometimes Elli used to

jokingly say Azazel and Harriet were a couple. Azazel might

not have any problem with this, but Harriet did not like this

thing and Often she used to get annoyed with Elli.

College semester exams were done, even during a month-long

vacation, Harriet, Elli and Azazel would sometimes plan to

meet and hang out together. Life and friendship were going

well and holidays were over and college started again.

On the first day of college after vacations, Harriet and Elli

came to their class and sat on their seats. After some time,

Azazel also came into the classroom and sat on the back seat.

All students were sitting in the classroom when the professor

came.

“Good morning students, today I will introduce you to two

new students who have been transferred and come to our

college.” Everyone's eyes were on the door, two boys came

in.

“Here, please introduce yourself.” Prof. asked.

“Hello everyone, my name is Asriel Creed. I'm new here so I

hope we have a good time together, thank you” The first boy

introduced himself.

There was no expression on his face, his

height was about 6ft., muscular body and black

doe eyes. He was wearing a plain black shirt with a leather

jacket and black jeans.

“Hello my name is Winston Davis, hope we have a lot of fun

together, Thanks, ``the second boy introduced himself with a

smile. He looked a bit flirtatious.

As the two boys moved

towards seats to sit, when Asriel passed by Harriet's seat, he

looked at Harriet, not wanting to look at him she looked at

him but immediately moved her gaze. Boys sat on their seats.

Elli said while teasing Harriet, “wow! So handsome, what do

you think?”

“I think I saw him somewhere before,” she tried to remember.

“Don’t tell me he is your ex-boyfriend or something” Elli

jokingly said.

“Shut up,” Harriet rolled her eyes.

When the class was over, Harriet and Elli sat in the cafeteria

and Harriet was still trying to remember where she had seen

the guy before. She goes to get something to eat but is still

focused on where she has seen that guy, suddenly she bumped

into someone and when she saw it, No one else but the same

guy Asriel.

“I’m sorry, I didn't pay attention, that's why,” she

said but “Or maybe was paying too much attention to

something,” He said coldly while cutting her words, leaving

her dumbfounded as he went away from there.

“What’s wrong with him?” she muttered.The next day, Harriet was waiting for Elli in college but she

did not come. “may I sit here”

“Yeah Sure”

“Hello! Myself Winston”

“I know New transfer student; Hi! I’m Harriet. Haven't your

friend come today?” Harriet asked with curiosity.

“Yes, but he is busy with some work,” Winston replied with a

smile. After some time Asriel came and sat on the back seat.

Looking at Asriel, Harriet thought in her mind ‘what is the

problem of this guy. It’s been a day he has come to college

and is showing so much attitude.’

Harriet, Elli and Azazel often sat in the cafeteria during the

break. One day the trio were sitting, then Winston came there

and asked, “May I also join you guys?” Azazel was about to

refuse when Elli spoke, “sure, why not.”

“Thank you,” Winston said.

Azazel did not like Winston sitting there and he left angrily.

“What happened to him,” Winston asked in confusion.

``Nothing leave him alone he’ll be alright” Harriet said, “so

why are you here?”

“Because I want to be friends with you guys,” he replied.

“Ok, what about your friend and your family,” Elli asked.“Um! Asriel is my one and only friend and he is also my

family because I lost my parents in an accident.”

“Oh! I’m sorry” Elli felt bad for him.

“No no, it’s fine.” Winston was a good person with a great

sense of humour.

The three started talking and within a few days they became

very good friends but Azazel did not like Winston.

In the past few days, Harriet became friends with Winston.

She tried her best to talk to Asriel but he ignored her. She was

desperate to talk to him, to know about him because she felt

pain in his cold eyes.

Once again Harriet had the same dream and she was very

scared. Her mother consoled her. That day she was very sad

when Elli asked her, she told everything about her dream to

Elli.

Because she was sad, she did not go to the cafeteria and went

to the library. Elli and Winston went to the cafeteria and

Azazel went to the library behind Harriet. She was sitting

quietly on a seat near the window and kept her head on the

table with her eyes closed. Suddenly Azazel came and

frightened her by making a strange sound. This enraged

Harriet, she shouted to Azazel and left. As she was angrily

passing through the college corridor,she noticed at some distance, Asriel was talking to a girl.

Harriet got even angrier after seeing that. Not wanting to, her

footsteps took her to Asriel.

“If I talk to you, you have a problem, you don't talk to me,

may I know the reason?” She said angrily.

“I do not think I am obliged to answer this and anyway we are

not good friends that I should talk to you or listen to your

nonsense,” he said rudely and left from there with that girl.

Harriet stood there silently with tears in her eyes and kept

looking at Asriel until he completely disappeared from her

sight. Asriel left from there and sat alone in a quiet place. He

was sad because of his behaviour with Harriet. He was feeling

unbearable pain.

***

Harriet did not come to college for two days after Asriel

behaved like that. When Winston asked Elli, she told him that

Harriet was not coming to college because of her health.

“Love what happened, why are you not going to college for

two days?” Her mother asked softly.

She was lying on the bed. “Nothing mom, I was just tired so I

didn't go and anyway I will go to college today.”

“Ok go and get ready,” Her mother said, kissing her forehead

and went from there.Harriet sat in front of her mirror and looked herself in the

mirror and told herself,

“You do not need to think about that rude Asriel, think about

your studies and your friends and your mother and care about

them.” But in her heart, she was aware that something was

happening to her.

She went to college and she met her friend and gave her a

tight hug. “Are you alright now?” Elli asked while hugging

her back.

“Yes I’m fine now At first the mind was a bit spoiled, but

now it is okay.”

“I know you think more about Asriel but I think Azazel likes

you, that's why he doesn't like Asriel because you think and

talk too much about Asriel.”

“There is nothing like that, neither I think about Mr Rude

Asriel nor Azazel about me and please you stop saying these

things again and again and pay attention to studies.”

“Ok I was just saying, if you don’t want to talk about then it’s

ok,” Elli said while walking towards their class.

The students in the class were gossiping about something, but

Harriet and Elli were busy talking on their own, due to which

they did not pay attention to them; when they were sitting in

the cafeteria in the break,while Azazel came from one side and Winston from the other

side. And sat down with Harriet and Elli. Just then, Asriel

passed by closely. He glanced at Harriet.

He wanted to apologize for his behaviour but when he saw

Azazel he quietly left. “Do you know that a girl from our

class has been murdered and her dead body is found on the

road near the forest?” Winston asked with a very careful

manner.

“What….?” Elli reacted.

“Yes, her name was Sophie, the police said that she was

murdered two days ago,” Azazel told them.

Harriet was shocked to hear the girl's name because she was

the same girl whom she had seen with Asriel two days ago.

“But two days ago I saw her with Asriel,” she told them.

“This means he murdered her,” Azazel said, making a serious

face.

“Stop blaming my friend without any proof and I know him

very well anyway, he is a very good person, he cannot do

such a thing, you understand,” Winston said angrily and

banged his hand on the table and then he went away. Harriet

was in a dilemma as to whether Asriel had done that or not.

Somewhere her heart was saying that he could not do that.Elli didn't like it when Winston walked away angrily. There was a different feeling for Winston in Elli's heart in these days of friendship.